Scottish Labour has let the country down

Sir, – British Labour’s scatterbrained joke of a Scottish branch manager Richard Leonard is calling on Holyrood to scrap the Tories’ two child limit for people on benefits.

Even by his own feeble standards this is an embarrassment.

Mr Leonard made a fool of himself by calling for Scottish Water to be nationalised.

This one, however, is in a category by itself.

It was “Scottish” Labour who stopped welfare from being devolved.

Richard Leonard’s party thought that Westminster Tories being in charge of social security was preferable to Holyrood control.

The context to this was the referendum campaign when Labour stood in solidarity and took money from the Tories to front the Better Together campaign of lies and deceit.

This is part of an established pattern.

All throughout the 1980s the feeble 50 Labour MPs sitting at Westminster did nothing as Thatcher looted the North Sea.

When Holyrood had a symbolic vote before Tony Blair laid waste to Iraq; it was the Tories whose votes Labour relied upon to ensure Holyrood gave its approval.

The British Labour unionist seems to be able to block facts, ideas and sources that challenge their absurd notions of “socialism”.

It is maintained by a mixture of control, compromise, conformity and blindness.

If any party deserves the moniker of Tartan Tories it’s “Scottish” Labour.

Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.

“Scatterbrained joke”: Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.